There has been a growing tendency to frame the discussion of developments in Hong Kong almost by default within a framework of “Beijing vis-à-vis Hong Kong” – or indeed of Beijing’s unilateral tightening of its grip on the city. Such a simplification, as Tim Summers points out, is “a misleading or at least partial interpretation of what is going on in Hong Kong” (p. 97). From this perspective, therefore, in his timely and concise monograph, Summers suggests that the ways to approach, conduct ..